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Free verse № 110961

A Piñon Planter

by Dovina

Member since 2004 · Posted 24 Aug 2004 · 11 comments

With chagrin, the raven flies over land of enchanted scrub. To higher ground he soars where ruby sun glistens on purple rounded hills below rugged piney mountains that looked to men of old like the shed Savior’s blood. To seven thousand feet he climbs upward, thin air, Santa Fe. Planting pine nuts lower is for the average crowd of birds. Oh, he feels it starting deep in nut-filled bowel the birth of a piñon tree planted on higher ground.

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[10] Dan garcia-Black 24-Aug-04/7:40 PM Reply
I printed this poem out and went to the restroom to read it. As it came to it's climax, my nut-filled bowl came to its own. Oh was that bowel? Nuts! Good. No, really! -10- Now I'll go back to wipe.
[n/a] Dovina › Dan garcia-Black 25-Aug-04/5:10 PM Reply
For whatever use this or any poem may find, including something to wipe with, it pales compared to the pure joy of writing it and seeing somebody notice.
[8] Enchantres 25-Aug-04/1:34 PM Reply
Beautiful...
[n/a] Dovina › Enchantres 25-Aug-04/5:11 PM Reply
Really?
[n/a] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. › Dovina 8-Sep-04/7:35 AM Reply
Yes.
[n/a] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. › -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 8-Sep-04/7:36 AM Reply
Wait... no.
[6] nentwined 27-Aug-04/2:51 PM Reply
cute. odd. definitely a difficult subject matter to try to make someone take seriously. Delving into the bowels so explicity does not do it for me, I think. Bits here and there don't cohere for me.
[n/a] Dovina › nentwined 27-Aug-04/3:16 PM Reply
I’m appalled that my raven, with his physical adversity, and his noble rising above the common crowd of ravens, did not inspire the same admiration we bestow on certain Olympic athletes who, in spite of injury, disease and economic poverty rise to glory.
[6] nentwined › Dovina 27-Aug-04/3:24 PM Reply
mmhmm.
[7] wilco 27-Aug-04/8:16 PM Reply
As I said: Not your best, but still one of the top 5 I've read today (Excluding the Dylan Thomas).
[n/a] Dovina › wilco 28-Aug-04/1:36 PM Reply
I will assume you have read more than five today. Thanks.